Here here the second and last public statement that the article by Susanna Tamaro.
I would say that it contains several provocations to ponder ...
I do not think .
The great battles for the liberation of women sadly, seem to have led women to be only objects differently . No need to be sociologists or for thinkers to realize that today all messages addressed to the children focus exclusively on their body, on how to offer other . We see girls as young as five years dressed as a cocotte and already eight years old girls living in a state of semi anorexia, terrified to eat anything they can attack the line . You have to be skinny, aware that the thing we have to offer, what will make us happy or unhappy, it's just our body .
The flourishing plastic surgery is not that a sad confirmation of this reality. It seems that many girls, their eighteen years old, ask the aesthetic touches as a gift. A breast is a bit 'bigger, a nose less prominent, more sensuous lips, ears not to sail.
The result of this surgery in mass is already before our eyes: we are surrounded by Barbie perfect, all the same, happily complied with all of this equality, all supposedly available to male desires .
It seems that nobody has ever told these teenagers the most important thing is not visible to eyes and that love does not come from body measurements but by something unspeakable that belongs primarily to the eye. We have gone so
the false image of woman as angel of the hearth, which occurs only in motherhood, the mystique of promiscuity that leads girls to believe that the seduction of the body and supply are the 'the only way to achieve . The more you have sex, the more you are smart, the more you are admired by the group. Hiding in the family, church, school, the educational reality is dominated by the media and the media have a single law. Approve. [...] "
(Susanna Tamaro, article published in the Corriere della Sera of Saturday, April 17, 2010 -
The bold and the italics are my additions )
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